Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Chronicles of absurdity, Act One-" the Last days of normality"

This is the story of how the Dominion
was created, how it endured and how now it rules supreme. As any good
narcissus I needed the pompous title so there you have it, the
Chronicles of absurdity. Catchy?Wink...:)

Before the collapse, this place was a
decent place to live. Well, at least on the surface it was. The big
star of the 80'es was the German Shepherd dog. This breed was
popularised on the basis of the communist myth, that during the
second world war, the lifetime president and the leader of
Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito was saved by his German Shepherd named
Lux from the shell explosion. The legend goes that the dog heard the
incoming round and threw it self on to the Tito, saving his life
while losing its own. This selfless act served as a proof of absolute
goodness of the dog and was just another myth among tomes of myths about
doggies.

The validity of this story cannot be
confirmed or denied, but considering the gap between the image of the
dog and the dog, I think that it is quite safe to say that this story
is a bullshit. The dog was simply thrown away by the blast's shock
wave and its body received most of the shrapnel.

However, the role of the German
Shepherd in the second world war waged in the Balkans has the dark
side as well. These dogs were often used in killings of captured
resistance fighters and civilian supporters, by letting them maul and
disembowel the prisoners. In retaliation the captured dogs were
equally brutalised by the guerilla, as their tongues would be cut off
and than they would either suffocate in their own blood or die slowly
of starvation and thirst.

But that was overlooked (as it is in
any story of the dogs) so the German Shepherd was the good one and we
have to be thankful cause it created our state so everyone wanted
one. And so everyone got one.

Back than, it was considered normal
that if you notice the stray dog, to report it to the animal control
service. Animal control service would respond and the dog was caught.
Back than, the stray dogs were considered as a threat to public
health and were terminated immediately. The result of this setting
was that the owners took a good care of their dogs, took them for a
walks always with the leash and if the dog had a nasty temper, it had
a muzzle, and that there was no stray dogs on the streets. The
dogcravers of those times, took the word walk the dog literary, so
they would often run with their dogs on leash which contributed to
their and the dog's good health. The only animals that were in
abundance were cats, but they also were subjected to the animal
control. However, people saw them to be useful cause they would take
care of the mice and rat issues. In the rural areas, the problem of
stray dogs was solved in the old fashion way, by the hunter's
lodge,with the lead therapy.

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“One of the greatest mistakes, in my opinion, is to identify the pet movement with the ecological movement. The pet movement is an industry based commercial trend while the ecological movement is driven by the noble idea that goes beyond ourselves. The pet movement is equally destructive towards nature as the oil industry is yet it was able to hide its true nature behind pet animal. The pet animal is just another industrial product and has the connection with the nature as much as the oil tanker. It is my firm belief that the greatest danger for the ecological movement and nature itself, comes not from the heavy industries yet from the pet movement itself”.
Professor Hilder